February 17, 1918

26302
ORDER
TO THE COMMISSAR OF NIKOLAYEVSKY STATION¹

I request that you provide a sleeping berth in the first class (car no. 242) in the train departing at 8 p.m. for Kharkov on February 17, 1918 for the gravely ill Maria Nikolayevna Skrypnik — Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars, traveling to Kiev for her recovery².

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

Printed from the typewritten copy

¹ Now the Oktyabrskaya Railway Station (Moscow Station) in Leningrad.
² On the same day V. I. Lenin signed an open letter of the Council of People's Commissars requesting all possible assistance for the sick M. N. Skrypnik, who was proceeding on leave to Kiev via Kharkov.

# ORDER
ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE
COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS
May 9, 1918
Moscow

Today, May 9, 1918, a telegram from Siberia dated April 25, 1918¹ was brought to me from the secretariat.

This telegram was shown to me only yesterday.

Meanwhile, this telegram is of *archive importance*, as a reply to my telegram of April 23, 1918².

Therefore I declare to all employees, secretaries, and senior staff in the Administration of the Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars:

a r e p r i m a n d

and I warn that the next time responsibility will be more severe.